Thursday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.

Mercer’s Lawrence picked in second round of WNBA draft

The legend at Mercer of Kahlia Lawrence continued Thursday night with here selection in the WNBA draft. In This Week’s Coverage.

Mayhem open playoffs with loss on the road

The scoring came in the third period, and early, and that set Evansville on the road to a 2-1 win over Macon in the first game of the best-of-three Challenge Round in the SPHL.

The teams return to action at the Macon Coliseum at 7:35 p.m. on Saturday.

Mayhem's Trask earns first-team all-league honors

A pair of Macon Mayhem players are on the All-SPHL teams.

Jake Trask made the first team and captain Daniel Gentzler the second team.

Salary for new Georgia hoops assistant released

Not long after joining Georgia's new basketball staff, Chad Dollar's salary has been released.

College Golf: Georgia College set for PBC tournament

Three days of Peach Belt golf are underway in St. Augustine, Florida, and Georgia College eyes its first title since 2010.

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This Week's Signings

FPD’s Maurice Gordon, who scored 875 points and had 498 rebounds, signed with Gulf Coast state on Friday. ...

Central celebrates girls basketball signings.

A collection of Central girls basketball players signed Friday: Jada Clowers with St. Petersburg (junior) College, JeNya Wilder and Tyleia Williams with Snead State (Ala.) Junior College, Kayia Greene with Southern Crescent Tech, and NeeNee Goolsby with Benedict in the SIAC.

Dooly County's Jarquavius Brown signed with Columbia State (Tenn.) CC on Friday. ...

The same week he earned All-America honors (see below), Central Georgia Tech's Mike Laster signed with Bowling Green, an NCAA Division I team in the Mid-American Conference that finished 16-16 last season. ...

Bleckley County is sending two softball players to the next level. Aliyah Whitehead has signed with Albany State, and Jordan Williams with Jordan Williams.

A pair of Houston County golfers signed on Wednesday, Hilton Beck with Georgia College and Brent Hamm with Troy. ...

Tattnall girls basketball standout I'Uana Slaughter has signed with Southern Crescent Tech. She helped the Trojans to 83 games in four years, averaging 11.2 points as a senior. ...

Houston County girls soccer player Marissa Molnar has signed to continue her career not far from home, at Wesleyan.

This Week's Honor Roll

Central Georgia Tech's Fredricka Sheats earned honorable mention All-American honors by the National Junior College Athletic Association, after averaging 15.2 points and 7.6 rebounds. She is a freshman from Athens. ...

Central Georgia Tech men's basketball player Mike Laster was named to the NJCAA All-America second team. The freshman from New York averaged 14.2 points, 3.9 rebounds, and 4.3 assists in helping the Titans reach the national tournament. ...

Outfielder Sarah Couch of Georgia College is the Peach Belt Conference freshman of the week.

Couch hit .500 in four conference games last week with a double and five RBIs. ...

Junior MJ Rookard of Middle Georgia State is the Southern States Athletic Conference player of the week, for the second time this season.

He helped the No. 17 Knights to a 3-1 week, hitting .500 with a .714 slugging percentage and 4 RBI. Rookard is batting .379 with 5 homers and 26 RBI.

This Week's Poll Watch

Georgia College's women's tennis team is 24th, up seven spots, in the latest ITA poll, while the men moved up two spots to No. 23. ...

Georgia College stayed at 13th in the latest Collegiate Baseball Division II poll, five spots behind Columbus State. The Bobcats moved up to No. 10 in the college baseball writers polls, and to No. 4 in Perfect Game. ...

Georgia is No. 18 in the latest D1Baseball.com and USA Today/Coaches poll, 21st in Baseball America, and 25th in Perfect Game. The Bulldogs fell out of the Collegiate Baseball poll.